The Muqaddimah : : An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition / / Ibn Ibn Khaldûn; ed. by N. J. Dawood.
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of kn...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION TO THE 2005 EDITION
- FROM THE TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE 1958 UNABRIDGED EDITION
- The Introduction and Book One of the World History, entitled Kitdb aWIbar of Ibn Khaldun
- BOOK ONE. OF THE KITAB AL-CIBAR
- INTRODUCTION
- Chapter 1. Human civilization in general
- Chapter 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements
- Chapter 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things. The chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions
- Chapter 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization. The conditions occurring there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection
- Chapter 5. On the various aspects of making a living, such as profit and the crafts. The conditions that occur in this connection. A number of problems are connected with this subject
- Chapter 6. The various kinds of sciences. The methods of instruction. The conditions that obtain in these connections
- (CONCLUDING REMARK)
- Index